Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nettled by the ancient wheeze that plumbers always forget their tools, D. A. Bell, president of the Associated Plumbing Contractors of Colorado, snorted at a Denver convention of the group: "Sheer malarkey. No plumber can carry with him all the tools he needs. A minimum of 3,000 tools and repair parts are required...
Freshmen, who have directed the various fund-raising projects to raise a minimum of $1500 for a scholarship, will gain $200 from the austere dinner, the Radcliffe dining halls department has promised...
...portrays the sordidness of the slums, but also sets the mood at all times with varying patterns of light and dark. As a result, there is no need for the incessant narrative that typifies most documentaries; comments are brief and quite adequate. Dialogue is also cut to an absolute minimum, and it is a tribute to the acting and directing that so many ideas are carried across to the audience without the use of words...
...most of them on farms. Even if that happened, payrolls would still be 1,800,000 under last summer's. After seven years in which an expanding economy had added 7,500,000 jobs, absorbed the yearly increase in the labor force and cut unemployment to an irreducible minimum, the job climate had changed. With 600,000 ex-G.I.s and other new recruits added to the labor force since last year, the number looking for jobs was increasing considerably faster than the number of new jobs. Thus, even if employment picked up as much as expected, the number...
...production, given entirely in Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...